On a stormy, steamy summer day in 2003, as I approached the Gasometer Oberhausen, which the Third Reich used for fuel storage, I expected the enormous cylindrical structure would prove the gloomiest ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Bill Viola, a video artist who combined with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and ...

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As announced on his website, artist Bill Viola passed away peacefully at home on Friday, July 12, following a long period of suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease. His lengthy career was marked by ...

Pioneering video artist Bill Viola died at age 73 at his home in Long Beach, California, on Friday, July 12 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. His death was confirmed by James Cohan, the ...

Artist Bill Viola, who elevated the fledgling medium of video art into something worthy of awe, imbuing it with the kind of spiritual transcendence found in the Old Masters, died on Friday at his home ...

Inspired by Renaissance painters, he explored life’s passages — birth, death, romantic love, redemption and rebirth — in often moving, often thrilling exhibitions. By Jori Finkel Bill Viola, an artist ...

Bill Viola, a video artist who partnered with director Peter Sellars on a groundbreaking production of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” originally seen in Los Angeles, Paris and New York, died ...

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Artist Bill Viola has died. The trailblazing creator of monumental video works died Friday at his home in Long Beach, Calif., of complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. He was 73. The news was ...